Oregon Sea Grant

This material was presented at the Coastal Sediments Conference in St. Pete Beach, Florida in 2019.

Developing an effective adaptation strategy for coping with future coastal hazards necessitates considering human-induced alterations to the system, climate-induced changes to environmental forcings, and the feedbacks between these drivers.

Sociologists who have studied how people in the Northwest respond to proposals for large energy facilities in their communities point to factors that could make it significantly harder for local communities to have a say in the development of these facilities under current conditions.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program and Land Grant and Sea Grant incarnations of university extension systems represent two boundary organizations with unique, but complementary, structures and a capacity for connecting and mediating the boundary between climate information producers and users.

Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are among the most highly valued and widely
available aquaculture species. They are also among the most critically endangered wild
fishes in their native ranges. They are the subjects of numerous studies ranging from
practical management and intensive aquaculture production to some of the most
important investigations of behavior and genetics of any vertebrates. Those studies have
provided a comprehensive background for testing critical hypotheses on life history and

Shifts in future temperature and precipitation patterns will have profound effects on host-parasite interactions and the dynamics of disease in freshwater systems. The aims of this chapter are to present an overview of myxozoan disease dynamics in the context of climate change, and to illustrate how these might be predicted over the next several decades by developing a case study of disease dynamics of Ceratonova (syn Ceratomyxa) shasta in the Klamath River, California USA.